Everything has to be done for a reason, and everything has to be done to make sense in terms of running a proper business today, and it's not just about the food.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

I wouldn't even think about bribing a rottweiler with a steak that didn't weigh more than I do.

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

Ukraine has been a strong partner to the United States on international initiatives and a committed ally in fighting the War on Terrorism.

If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.

My advice is that you should use your brains more and train less.